Who published The Escape, the first play written by a Black American?
Who is William Wells Brown
100
What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workers which demanded a large number of Africans be imported to the Americas?
What is tobacco
100
The Guinness Book of World Records list what Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all time?
What is Thriller
100
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?
What is the YMCA
100
What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. armed forces?
What is World War II
200
Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played?
What is zydeco
200
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET or Black Entertainment Television
200
In what city was Louis Armstrong born?
What is New Orleans
200
What Black American sparked the "Montgomery Bus Boycott"?
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
Who was the first Black American appointed to the United Sates Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?
Who is Vanessa Williams
300
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Who is Oprah Winfrey
300
Who was the star of the 1977 movie "The Greatest"?
Who is Muhammad Ali
300
What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War?
What is Reconstruction
300
Ratified in 1870, what Amendment to the U.S. constitution forbids the federal government and states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting?
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
400
What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?
What are the blues
400
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?
What is Spelman College
400
What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s?
Who is Run-DMC
400
What African country has the largest population?
What is Nigeria
400
In May 1954, the United States Supreme Court issues a monumental decision in what famous case regarding school segregation?
What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
500
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved", which became a motion picture, and for "Jazz". Name her.
Who is Toni Morrison
500
This graduate of Howard University Medical School was the first African American woman to pass the medical boards and become a doctor in Kentucky. Name her.
Who is Artishia Garcia Gilbert?
500
The film "Glory" was based on America's first unit of black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Best Supporting Actor of this 1989 film?
Who is Denzel Washington
500
It was a campaign in the South to assist in registering black people to vote during the summer in 1964. What was this campaign called?
What is Freedom Summer
500
Who was sworn in by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first black member of a presidential cabinet?